In a world where obesity is killing thousands of people a day in the world, it's almost joyous to hear that there are startups and app builders out there trying to use any means necessary to create the simplest apps to defeat life-threatening lifestyles...

Autoruns v11.5 : This update to Autoruns, a utility for managing autostarting applications and components, now reports the image timestamp of executables and the last-modified timestamp of other file types and autostart locations to help with forensic...

Felienne Hermans is proof that it’s possible to start a successful company while still a student.
Two years ago, Netherlands-based Felienne started applying her research on spreadsheets to build Infotron. And now the company is not only generating...

The new class for Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure just launched. According to Scott Guthrie , a Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Server and Tools Business , we started the first Azure Accelerator because we wanted to give promising startups...

We have friends who are into the mobile experience. When we were in Austin, we saw this dude shooting video and interviewing mobile developers about their take on the mobile space.
The video that came out of that explores the future of mobile in the...

Thanks to Jason Calacanis and his Launch team for letting Festomat use its software to help check people into the conference this year. Here is a video showing this BizSpark team proving to thousands of attendees that their NFC-enabled software on Windows...

If the discussions over the coffee breaks were any indication, delegates at the annual IAMCP Summit in Brussels all seemed to agree it was a great success, but for me the highlight was the first-ever EU AppCup competition.
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Few things in life leave an impression quite like meeting Dave McClure….
The first time we met in person was at Le Web in December 2011.
Here we are at Brian Solis’ birthday drinks at the Intercon in Paris, sandwiched between Oren from...

If you have not read Dave McClure's thoughts on the 500 Startups business model , stop now, and go read it .
If you are maybe looking for a bit of light reading that explains the whole theory, culture and practice of startups and why he does what he...

The second round of the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program is now live: it pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during focused 6-13 month “tours of duty”...

If you went to South by Southwest this week and were overwhelmed by garish colored posters proclaiming the next big app, then you were not alone. Oddly, it seemed as though there were a lot of pitches and a lot of judgment of those pitches, but that there...

Alan Weinkrantz ran into Kobi Stok and his guitar at SXSW this week. Weinkrantz asked Kobi what it was like to develop something for Windows Azure and if it was easy to work with Microsoft in their Accelerator program in Tel Aviv. Kobi answered in the...

Careful what you say in a pitch. Speek CTO Danny Boice, a Microsoft BizSpark member and fully tattooed dropout from Harvard, said at the end of his pitch in front of TechCocktail's pitch contest crowd at SXSW that if they won the pitch contest, then John...

Any time you can open up a platform to more options for interoperability, it’s a great thing. It’s even better if the platform is as popular as Apache Hadoop and the new option is one that has been accepted as a popular choice. And earlier...

What a thrill to land in Austin two days ago and immediately start answering tweets and text messages, setting up meetings and designating meetup spots for official and unofficial -- business.
When BizSpark travels, there is never a city we land in...

The team at BizSpark knows that mobile video is the thing this year. So, to make it even more a thing, our evangelist team asked Chicago-based startup, Sparkreel if we could use their app to promote the awesome stuff that is happening at SXSW.
So,...

So, you all have probably seen the Learn to Code video .
How can you not be inspired by this?
Well, one of our BizSpark members, Prateek Gupta, is heading to SXSW as we speak, on the Startup Bus. And he and a team of coders and hackers are working...

We are at Launch Festival 2013 today. San Francisco weather is gorgeous, and startups are jumping off the walls.
Here's a live stream widget that will let you watch everything that is happening on stage. ...read more